How to Build a Career You Love - Getting Good at Things That Are Rare and Valuable

The attributes of a job that makes it great are almost always in demand. They're rare and valuable. Most jobs don't have em. If you want those, if you want those in your job, you have to have something rare and valuable to offer in return. And therefore the whole game in building a career you love is skill acquisition. Step one, get really good at things. Step two, use those skills as leverage to shape your career towards the elements that resonate and away from the elements that don't. Get good uses leverage. Get better uses, even bigger leverage. You cultivate, overtime, a career that then is a real source of meaning and satisfaction for you.